If this is the case, why didn’t they do what they did for the federal workers and cut it for future employees? Better yet, why don’t they cut their own pensions instead of taking raises?

Congress people serve one term and get pensions and healthcare subsidies for life. They are hardly worth it. We have a permanent political class of elites.

Why don’t they cut the welfare payments, tax credits and college tuition grants to people here illegally? Why don’t they do something about the post office? Congress has a lot to do with that fiasco but they won’t touch it. They are losing a couple billion dollars every three months.

This is Mr. Ryan’s calculation:

Here’s what the new law will do. We make no changes for those currently at or above age 62. This reform affects only younger military retirees. Right now, any person who has served 20 years can retire —regardless of age. That means a serviceman who enlists at 18 becomes eligible for retirement at 38. The late 30s and early 40s are prime working years, and most of these younger retirees go on to second careers.

All this reform does is make a small adjustment for those younger retirees. If they retire before age 62, the annual increase in their retired pay will be 1% less than the inflation rate. In other words, their benefits will grow every year — just at a slower rate. And when the retiree hits 62, DOD will recalculate the retired pay so that it will be where it would have been if he or she had received the full inflation adjustment every year since he or she retired.

Ryan said that the money saved will stay with the defense department.

Why were military the only ones affected in this way? It’s a morale buster.

Why didn’t he demand something be done about entitlements? Those need reform, especially with Obamacare hurtling down the tracks.

Ryan said he doesn’t want to kick the can down the road, all while he kicked the can down the road, except for military pensions of course, those he didn’t want to kick down the road.

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